help with obtaining s-off with hboot 2.18

**1moneymark** · 03-03-2012, 10:19 PM

i returned my phone to sprint for service. they sent it back with locked hboot 2.18. i followed htcdev instructions to unlock bootloader. i then followed Captian_Throwback's instructions to obtain s-off and root with unrevoked etc. (thanks Captain) everything has been great untill step 9. i download flash image and mtd-eng then try to extract. when i extract flash image i get compressed file invalid. on mtd-eng i get file empty. please help. i didnt come this far to get stymied by a zip file.

**vulcan001** · 03-03-2012, 11:34 PM

You dont flash the img. file you flash a zip file. img files are used when doing it from a command promt. Try the zip file and that should work, do you have s-off already?

**1moneymark** · 03-04-2012, 11:23 AM

no im not s-off yet. here is where im stuck:

9) Download "flash_image.zip" & "mtd-eng.zip" from this post, and extract the files contained in the zips. Put the flash_image and mtd-eng.img on the root of your sdcard. Then, input the following commands, as seen in the picture below: .....

so i download the zip files and need to extract to put on sd card and run commands from from command prompts. the only problem is when i try to extract i get error saying compressed file is invavid.

please help

**1moneymark** · 03-04-2012, 12:42 PM

ok maybe a good question for me to ask is ... is there a place for me to get these files where they are not in a .zip format?

**tazman1963** · 03-04-2012, 03:36 PM

You do NOT want to unzip them, just put them at the root of your sd card and flash them as they are!

Sent from Looney Tunes Central!

**MiltJR111** · 03-04-2012, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by 1moneymark

ok maybe a good question for me to ask is ... is there a place for me to get these files where they are not in a .zip format?

I can upload them to my Dev-Host account if you have trouble extracting them from the link I PM'ed you.

Originally Posted by tazman1963

You do NOT want to unzip them, just put them at the root of your sd card and flash them as they are!

Sent from Looney Tunes Central!

This is incorrect. These aren't flashable files. They will be accessed via the command prompt, and do need to be extracted, as indicated in the instructions.

EDIT: Here are links to the extracted files (just in case) - ;